Patients

Dialysis at home a better option for kidney patients, but take-up remains low

Experienced peritoneal dialysis nurses like Ms Shadirah Zaharum (left) help patients like Madam Norhyati Buang manage their condition, offer advice on living conditions and provide emotional support.

What is peritoneal dialysis, and what are its benefits?

In peritoneal dialysis, a permanent catheter is surgically placed, with one end in the abdominal cavity and the other on the outside to allow the dialysis fluid to flow into and out of the abdominal cavity.

Explosion rips through Pennsylvania nursing home

Firefighters work at the site after a gas explosion caused a partial building collapse at the Silver Lake Nursing Home in Bristol, Pennsylvania, U.S. December 23, 2025. REUTERS/Bastiaan Slabbers

Who is left, when illness takes away your mind or body?

A sense of self can drive survival and live on in memories.

MediFund gave over $165m in assistance to needy Singaporeans in last financial year

MediFund helps needy Singaporean patients who are unable to afford their medical bills after government subsidies.

Thailand to airlift critical patients as southern floods kill 33

Members of a volunteer team evacuate a resident from her home, which is partially submerged in a flooded area in Hat Yai district, affected by heavy rainfall, which has impacted several provinces in southern Thailand and has killed several people, in Songkhla province, Thailand, November 25, 2025. REUTERS/Sithichai Chootochana

As US migration rates drop, life on the San Diego border has changed

Migrants, who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and were detained and released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, gather at a transit station as they plan to travel across the country from the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego, California, U.S., September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Community hospital uses old MRT train carriage, public bus and taxi for patients’ rehabilitation

Galvin Tan, senior occupational therapist (left) and Keen Austria, senior physiotherapist with the decommissioned taxi and bus that are used to train caregivers and patients at St. Andrew's Community Hospital (Bedok) on Nov 17, 2025.

How kidney dialysis takes a toll on one patient’s life and work

Mr Lim Chee Meng, 55, at NKF Aljunied on Nov 1.

A silent killer: Half of kidney failure cases in S’pore could have been prevented, says doc

Dr Arjunan Kumaran, 34, with his patient, Mr Syafic Bin Omar, 40, at Intemedical Tampines on Oct 28.

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